Anais Nin was a famous Author from USA, who lived between February 21, 1903 and January 14, 1977. He/she became 73 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive.
Our collection contains 39 quotes who is written / told by Anais, under the main topics: Nature - Dreams - Dad.
39 Famous quotes by Anais Nin
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman"
"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern"
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing"
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself"
"Good things happen to those who hustle"
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born"
"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it"
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living"
"Dreams are necessary to life"
"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions"
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic"
"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy"
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age"
"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked"
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself"
"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do"
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say"
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are"
"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic"
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls"
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others"
"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow"
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love"
"The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless"
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle"
"People living deeply have no fear of death"
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together"
"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living"
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings"
"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live"
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat"
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death"
"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all"
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it"
"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it"
"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way"
